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My colleague often shuts down my machine through the LAN - how do I prevent it?
This might sound weird. My colleague and I were working on a Windows machine. He frequently shuts it down through the LAN.
He usually follows these steps:
Access command prompt, enter shutdown -i.
Choose my IP address, click on Shutdown.
Select a…
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How do I remove English (US) from Windows 8.1?
I've got a slightly annoying problem. My locale is English (UK), but occasionally my keyboard randomly switches to English (US) on Windows 8.1. I see that the task bar has a language selector, which when I click on it displays two languages:
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growse
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How can I hide the most visited sites on Chrome?
Since the last update it has been impossible to hide the most visited sites. I don't know if it's some temporary sick joke by the chrome team but I need to remove it.
I have tried changing my home to something other website, this works for when you…
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Does this exist: software for noise cancellation
I'm aware that the best option for noise cancelling is to buy myself a pair of noise cancelling headphones...
But is there any software available that would use the pc mic and headphones to block background noise?
Alterlife
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What is the purpose of the WWW subdomain?
What's the point of having www.? Isn't it just useless extra text? Since everyone is used to it, www.google.com looks more well-balanced than google.com, but why did it start in the first place?
One thing I noticed, is that google.com has the IP of…
mk12
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Compressing with RAR vs ZIP
A lot of people are compressing files with RAR, sending compressed files with RAR and so on.
ZIP is more standard and works on all platforms. Windows users have ZIP included and Linux users have no trouble with that file format.
The tests I did…
FerranB
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What is Chrome Canary and how is it different from Google Chrome?
As the question title says it all, I read Google support, I read few things here and there, the only thing they say is it's for developers and it is updated at a rapid speed, but how exactly is Chrome Canary different from Google Chrome?
Mr. Alien
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How do I sync the Solution Explorer with the current File in Visual Studio?
When I have an open code file in Visual Studio that I am editing I would like to keep that same file highlighted inside of the solution Explorer so that I know where I am at.
What I'd really like is to change the focus to a different code file and…
thepaulpage
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Convenient way to enable/disable Hyper-V in Windows 8
I really like the Hyper-V support in Windows 8, however, there are some situations in which I need to disable Hyper-V in order to run some apps which don't like to be executed even in the root partition of the virtualized environment.
What I've been…
Fredy Treboux
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How do I extract fingerprints from .ssh/known_hosts?
My laptop has a well-populated ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. I'd like to leverage that when connecting to remote hosts from my desktop, since tracking down the fingerprints can be a real chore. However, I can't seem to find a way to ask ssh-keygen or…
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Equivalent to tar's "--strip-components=1" in unzip?
I have a script that extracts a tar.gz-file to a specified subdirectory mysubfolder:
mkdir mysubfolder; tar --extract --file=sourcefile.tar.gz --strip-components=1 --directory=mysubfolder;
Is there any equivalent way of doing this with a zip-file?
Fredrik
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Using robocopy and excluding multiple directories
I'm trying to copy some directories from a server before I restore from backup (my latest backup was corrupt, so I have to use an older one :( ). I'm in the Windows Recovery Environment and have access to the server's file system G:\ and my backup…
GorrillaMcD
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Max files per directory on NTFS vol vs FAT32
What's the max number of files that can be present in a directory on a NTFS volume?
Same question for a directory for FAT32 volume?
Gaurav
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How can I check a system's current NTP configuration?
I need to verify the current NTP configuration on some Windows systems. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this via command line instead of navigating through configuration screens.
(I'm working on several different OS versions, and configuration…
Iszi
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How can I produce high CPU load on Windows?
For testing purposes I need to generate high CPU load on a Windows Server 2003.
I cannot install any software but have to make do with what Windows provides.
What would be the best way to achieve that?
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